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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Wilkinson

Jury out in trial of men accused of bid to sell Anglo-Saxon coins worth £766,000

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A jury has been sent out to consider verdicts in the trial of two men accused of an illegal plot to sell historically-important Anglo-Saxon coins.

Craig Best, 46, and Roger Pilling, 75, deny conspiring to sell criminal property – ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking and which have never been declared as Treasure, and have not been handed to the Crown.

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